Digital Project

My website on how social media and your career are connected in this new advance digital age. 

http://wilsonyuquilima.wix.com/social-careers

pray for paris

social media is good, and at the same time it can be bad.

using social media to contact loved ones instantly during an attack was not possible several years ago. letting someone know that you are safe is a good thing. instant communication within the public and the military is more or less a good thing. quick response teams were able to communicate with themselves because internet and phone lines were not down, unlike during September 11.

instant communication can also apply to simple everyday tasks. playing online with friends and chatting with them is great. letting your boss know that you will be late for work because of transit problems and not suffer the consequences is amazing. this can also be a very dangerous thing. recent reports have found that terrorist groups maybe using these some of these social media outlets. a report stating that they may be using a PlayStation 4 group chat feature to communicate is a scary thought. that is an open platform and is not being monitored and only controlled by the company when there are enough complaints against a certain profile.

social media mainly being used to gather information is kind of a neutral ground. it can also be use to spread gossip and hatred.  while some people actually care about current events and use it speak their mind and knowing when to attend events is awesome. there are also people that are "glad" that this happen to them and that they "deserved it" is not right. others just follow the trend and the occasionally profile picture change.

its ok to follow these trends, but i think everyone should know about major events such as these and what is being said on the global news. knowing what this or that nations military might is going to do is serious information. how we can offer help to these people and what other nations are doing to help is something that we should know about. raising positive awareness about these events through social media now is much quicker than waiting for service to be restored later or having to hear reports on the evening news.

selfies and trolls

selfie(s) is a relatively new term, only being added to the dictionary in 2013. now with the internet it is much more easier to post and share information. but constant use of it can cause many problems down the road. constantly posting selfies on media may indicated some psychologically problems. the need to be approved by everyone and to be recognized can be a negative effect. but now that we can see this person is always looking for recognition on social media, we can address the problem more quickly. knowing the someone may have a serious mental state in the earlier stages can help the people that care for that person.

people that i follow on social media right now are not to involved in lots of posting, besides the random celebrities that i follow, simply cause its fun. when they do post its usually at a event, such as a birthday or attending an event. other pictures are of special moments, with them posing with family or their kids. i dont really have a lot of friends, and even less friends on social media. i am very close with the friends that i have, always trying to stay in contact with them, even if it is a simple "hello, have a good day at work."

trolling is a terrible thing to do to another person. to threat another person and not suffer or see the consequences is a terrible thing. thinking that you are a high and mighty person simply because you are putting down another person is a sign of mental instability. maybe a bad childhood or them being trolled themselves made them reach this point.

i dont really know anyone who has been trolled before. being trolled in a video game is a very different experience that trolling someone emotionally. there is always someone making fun of someone simply and someone being made fun of. i try to confront them or help them ether one.

Blogging (blog entry #5)

blogs are used by many different types of people. blogs can be personal, political or professional. personal blogs can also be used as a form of communication. some people use blogs to express their thoughts and ideas. sharing personal ideas on various topics are popular choices for blogs. just reports on current events is also often seen. information that can be read quick and quickly states it purpose can generate many views and become popular.

talking to others about things that interest them and giving their own opinion is also a popular choice. blogs about cooking or gaming are great examples. sharing a new recipe and showing how to do it to many people is comforting for some people. others also blog for money. blogging and commenting on popular restaurant or a gaming post and stating their opinions is a way to generate some money. giving positive reviews and praising the product to giving it more attention will usual mean more money for you based on how maybe people are referred to it by you. reading and interacting with others through a blog post might be comfortable to some. they might not like talking to huge crowds and may tend to get nervous.

making a blog for this course can be seen as a positive thing. interacting with others and getting interested in blogs and technology history is a goal that can be achieved. researching different and interesting topics each week is a good exercise.

I had made a blog before. I also follow a couple of interesting blogs such as gaming blogs. reading a review on a particular game influences if I would buy it. discussing a game despite it being good or bad is a great experience. meeting and talking to people online about similar topics and becoming friends is a great way for the socially awkward. other gaming blogs post video reviews which are better because you can now see the emotion and action in the person making the review, instead of just reading a couple of paragraphs. if i had to make another blog that is what it would be based on.

Blog Entry #3

I personally like to use computer to computer communications. Besides family at home, I don't really talk to people face to face, unless Facetime counts. I like talking to my friends by text because it’s much more convenient. Working in a loud construction site with everyone yelling and loud machinery going, it’s not easy to talk to someone on the phone. Quick texts to friends or my boss are better at being sent and received then me yelling into a phone trying to get them to hear me.

I do enjoy having face to face conversations at times. This week I attended New York Comic Con and it was a mixture of face to face and technology communication. Texting my friends and telling them what I was see and being able to send pictures is great. Meeting and taking pictures with a writer or artist or actor and talking about their work and bonding over something that we both enjoy is a great feeling. Finding people that enjoy the same things as me and being excited and talking about it while waiting in line is great. Holding a 15 minute conversation was easy this weekend. I would prefer talking to my best friends face to face because we are all pretty loud and outgoing but with everyone working and in school it’s tough to get together. I do put up a wall sometimes, which then I don't really like talking or I'm not interesting in the conversation of the group.

I can see the point that Sherry Turkle is trying to make. Besides taking photos of people and with people, I didn't use my phone that often this weekend. Walking around and looking at booths and admiring peoples work was great. But seeing other people just walking around and looking down at their phones and bumping into people. People sitting on the floor and looking down at their phones. Seeing them not notice the huge space of exciting and wonderful things around them was kind of a sad thing to see. people are really missing out on good times and sometimes lose good friends because they can’t hold a good conversation or always glued to their smartphones and checking their social media.

Blog Entry #2

War Games was a very interesting film. The way the film predicted war outcomes for that time was very cool. Another good film that Dr. Barry recommended to watch was The Imitation Game which is based on the story of Alan Turing and his code breaking machine during WWII.

Getting access to passwords then and now has always been difficult and easy at the same time. While some passwords are easy and some are very hard, eventually they will be found. Like in the film, some people are just careless and write down their passwords to very important things. The safe thing to do is to memorize it and to use a long difficult password with letters, numbers, and symbols. Hackers also have programs that can run algorithms at a ridiculous rate to figure out passwords, which is usually depicted in spy films. Weak passwords can cause major damage when figured out by the wrong person.

Communication has also changed from the time in which War Games was set in. we now have many means of communication in case any one of them fails. Using smart phones, laptops, PCs and tablets that are connected to the internet and social media connects use to anyone in the world. The classic phone call is now rarely used, especially with young adults. Chatrooms. Instant Messengers, and webcam chat programs are now the go to way to connect to another person.

Backdoors to computer programs absolutely still exist. Programmers need a quick way to access their programs or games to apply updates or patches. They must be heavily protected and changed often because if anyone else gains access to the program code, they can really mess it up and it would take a long time to find the mistake and fix it.

Big computers rooms are mainly filled with servers that contain loads of information. I once went on a high school trip to a Con Edison building in Manhattan and they had two floors just filled with severs and maintenance and updates were constantly being done.

Computers and programs that interact with us in now very popular. Siri on the iPhone is a perfect example. It can understand you and do voice to text messages. Games that change based on your pervious choices are also popular now. The video game Until Dawn is a great example on how the game changes. roll playing games also have different story lines depending on your character selection at the very beginning and then continues changing as your progress through the game.

Blog Entry #1

Hello! my name is Wilson. I am 25 years old. wont say my last name, mainly because people cant pronounce it. I currently live in Queens, New York where I am studying at LaGuardia Community College. Right now I am a Liberal Arts major but I hope to change that to a Civil Engineering major. I've been working in construction for the past 6 years which is where my interest for engineering comes from.

This is a blog entry for my Intro to Computer Mediated Communication. The reason I selected this class is because it meet the requirement for the flexible core structure of my major. I also selected this class because it seemed very interesting. In a world where technology plays a huge part in our everyday lives, it would be interesting to learn the history of technology and how all the different forms of communications have evolved over time. how is technology affecting our lives and are we becoming to attached to it?

Many forms of communication technology exist today which we all have access to. A list of the ones that I use daily would be:
-A laptop or tablet. Which is used to access the internet and browse all sorts of information.
-websites and apps such as Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube are all forms of communication that I use on a daily basis.

-A smartphone. basically the same as the laptop just or portable and doesn't take up as much space. The number of apps available on a smartphone are also useful.

-An Xbox One. Can also be used as a form of communication instead of just an entertainment system. I can communication with friends anywhere around the world and play with them at any time. 


if I were to pick a favorite form of computer mediated communication I would say my Xbox One. Its something that I use everyday and I enjoy it. Being free of time difference constraints is a strange feeling. It may only be noon where I am, but for my friend he could be a couple hours ahead or behind, but that doesn't matter cause in the moment be are both just talking and having fun.
I also recently started streaming on Twitch. Even though its just talking to random people that stop by in my lobby, forming a community and connecting with people over a similar topic or game is a great feeling.


--sorry this is such a long first post--